Just a very quick reply to this one, as I have spoken about this before in Scienceagogo.
Originally no Doctor, Hospital, or Clinic ever stated that ever stated that male circumcision protected women against HIV or AIDS. But there is a very large amount of liturature that proves that circumcison does protect women against Gonnoreah and Syphylis, plus other sexually transmitted diseases.
The Australians did suggest that circumcision might give some protection against HIV and AIDS, but they are both relatively new highly infectious diseases, which more importantly can both be transmitted by other methods than by normal sexual intercourse.
Apart from the Australians suggesting circumcision might help.
At the time I wrote about circumcision, nobody had ever suggested that it helped prevent AIDS or HIV.
HIV and AIDS are both extremely dangerous and life threatening diseases, for which to date there is no cure.
Although I believe it can be held at 'bay' by using an expensive concoction of anti-biotics, and other drugs for the rest of ones life.
These drugs are not usually available in the poorer countrys of Africa, due to the high price involved in relation to their subsistance wages. That being the reason why AIDS/HIV is so prevalent on the African continent.
One can find a lot of info that circumcision protects the other Sex transmitted diseases.
Most hospitals in the USA the UK usually ask if they would like their newborn son, circumcised these days
So I am sure you can find a lot of info regarding pro-circumcision against the other sex transmitted diseases if you search.
My old URL is here:-
http://www.scienceagogo.com/forum/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=23011#Post23011There are also a number of replys to this above post, that might interest you.